A new show from all-star chef Gordon Ramsay leads Channel 9's incredible TV show line-up for 2023

Nine has announced its exciting line-up of TV shows for the coming year at its annual Upfronts event, held in person for the first time in two years this afternoon.

It's more of everything we know and love, with new seasons of Married At First Sight, The Block, LEGO® Masters and everyone's favourite Travel Guides confirmed to return next year.

There will also be some fun Christmas specials to see out the year and thrilling new dramas to look forward to in 2023.

Here's more of what to expect:

Still to come in 2022:

My Mum Your Dad

Kate Langbroek presents this heartfelt series about single parents looking for love for the second time around. What they don't know is their adult children are secretly guiding them through the perils of modern dating.

While this group of brave mums and dads are gathered at a luxury retreat, their kids have taken up residence in a remote bunker to watch their parents' every move.

Kate Langbroek
Kate Langbroek is the host of My Mum Your Dad. (Instagram)

Not only do they have their parents under surveillance, they also have a big hand in who they date as their parents navigate new territory in the hope of finding their forever person.

These parents will find themselves in a raw and vulnerable position that their kids have never seen before. From touching, major breakthroughs and shocking confessions to funny, unguarded moments, the parents lay it all on the line in the quest for love.

How well do these kids really know their parents? Would you trust your child to choose the right partner for you?

Love Island Australia

Prepare to dive in and fall in love with a sizzling-hot new group of singles on the fourth season of Love Island Australia, to be filmed in a new villa on the program's return to the beautiful island of Mallorca in Spain.

Aussie sweetheart and Love Island's own Cupid, Sophie Monk, is back as host, alongside the narrator, Irish presenter Eoghan McDermott.

Sophie Monk stuns Grand Finale dress Love Island Australia 2021
Sophie Monk stuns Grand Finale dress Love Island Australia 2021 and is returning for the 2022 season. (Nine)

Once again the Islanders must couple up and stay together to secure their place in the villa or risk being dumped and sent packing, all while surviving the temptations of sexy new bombshells arriving.

They must also win over the hearts of the viewers who will ultimately decide their fate and the winning couple. It will be a blistering summer of love with more hilarious challenges, dates, drama and romance than ever.

Lego Masters Christmas

LEGO Masters, one of the biggest hits on television, will return later this year for a two-part LEGO Bricksmas Special. This year's festivities will begin early as some of Australia's favourite celebrities team up with contestants from the past four seasons in a very special Christmas celebration. Who will take the honours with the best and most magical Christmas build?

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Hamish Blake and Brickman on set for LEGO Masters Bricksmas specials episode 2. (Nine)

The two-part Christmas special will feature Poh Ling Yeow, Emma Watkins, Darren Palmer and Lincoln Lewis. Expect new builds, new twists, and a giant sackful of LEGO as we wish you a very Merry Bricksmas!

Snackmasters

Snackmasters sweetened up our TV screens in 2021, uncovering the secrets in the recipes of some of our most famous snacks, including the mysterious ingredients of the Cheese Twistie.

This year the uniquely surprising cooking challenge is back, bigger and better with more tasty surprises, as Season 2 tests the limits of eight of the country's best and most fiercely competitive chefs. They will go head-to-head in a new knockout cooking competition to see who can crack the snack and win the title of Ultimate Snackmaster.

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Snackmasters returns later this year with even more delicious snacks. (Nine)

Join hosts Scott Pickett and Poh Ling Yeow as each episode of Snackmasters sees two top chefs in a battle to make perfect replicas of one of the nation's best-loved snacks, while inveterate snack lover Yvie Jones gains access to the production lines for these delicious treats, giving viewers a sneak peek inside the factories where the snacks are made.

From the classic Arnott's Tim Tam that's adorned kitchen cupboards since 1963 and the hugely popular Aussie Four'nTwenty classic meat pie to a Domino's Pepperoni, the nation's most popular pizza, our culinary maestros will have nothing but limitless supplies of these products and their own tastebuds as they try to crack the secrets of the snack.

Dream Listings

Everyone is trying to get a piece of the Byron Bay pie. It's where Hollywood A-listers are living the dream and Instagram influencers are flocking to in droves. Enter the ultra-competitive, highly focused real estate agents working to sell the sexiest real estate on earth in Dream Listings, a hot new series coming to the 9Network later this year.

Viewers will get a glimpse into Australia's most prestigious playground, where the spectacular beaches and seaside glamour set the scene for all the action. There will be beachside deals, tussles for premier property listings, and feuds over negotiations as these agents work to secure a piece of paradise for their prestige clients.

Country Home Rescue with Shaynna Blaze

For 14 seasons we've seen Shaynna Blaze as a judge on The Block, as well as helping homeowners spruce up their spaces on Selling Houses Australia. Now, for the first time, Shaynna is doing it for herself and her family in the heartwarming new series, Country Home Rescue.

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Shaynna Blaze as seen on The Block. (Instagram)

In Country Home Rescue, Shaynna, together with her children, embark on the restoration of a dilapidated historical home in regional Victoria. Watch as they navigate through a never-ending maze of problems when their grand plans are sideswiped by building restrictions, frustrating delays and a huge budget blowout. It will take every ounce of passion and persistence to turn this renovation nightmare into the forever home of their dreams.

But you'll be amazed as room by room is revealed.

New in 2023:

Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars

In a brand-new series for the 9Network, culinary superstar and CEO Gordon Ramsay and business mogul Janine Allis will mentor and guide competing teams in Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars.

Breaking into the multi-billion-dollar food industry can be an impossible feat unless you're lucky enough to have some big investors. Gordon and Janine are on the hunt for Australia's most exciting and innovating new food ideas – searching high and low for the next food star to mentor and invest in.

Gordon Ramsay is the king of the foul mouth, and it seems his bad attitude has also rubbed off on his appearance. 45? Those look like the wrinkles of a 70-year-old!
Gordon Ramsay will be a huge part of Nine's new show.

Contestants will need to pitch their concept to win a spot in the competition, before surviving high pressure challenges and an intense grilling from two reigning food stars, determined to see if they've got the raw ingredients to become Food Stars. They'll need to prove they have what it takes when it comes to service, marketing, branding and event management.

Battling it out for their place at the top will be Gordon and Janine's competing teams – 14 potential food stars who are ambitious, competitive and creative. With one winning idea from each team to take home a cash prize to kickstart their new business, everything is on the line.

The Summit

In the rugged Alps of New Zealand's southern island, a group of strangers will embark on an epic quest unlike anything ever seen. With their backpacks containing an equal share of 1 million dollars, the group must reach the peak of a distant mountain in just 14 days to win the cash they're carrying.

Along the journey they'll need to work as a team as they tackle dangerous terrain, wild conditions and overcome adrenaline-charged challenges that block their path to the mountain. But what happens when members of the group fall behind, will the rest of the trekkers slow down and risk not reaching it up the mountain in time? Or will they cut them loose and press ahead to cash in? In a thrilling tale of endurance, survival and greed; morals will be tested, physical limits pushed, and bonds broken.

Will they reach the summit in time and who will walk away with the money? A blockbuster action adventure filled with cliff-hangers; this is The Summit… getting up is just the beginning!

Warnie

There has never been and never will be another like him. Over two big nights, Warnie will be the fitting tribute to one of the greatest Australians of all time, the Aussie larrikin who lived and loved large in the 9Network's must see drama event of 2023.

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Cricket legend Shane Warne is the subject of a new Channel 9 drama series. (Getty)

Shane Warne was an Aussie legend, a cultural icon, a cricketing genius, a charmer and a rogue. 'Warnie' transcended cricket. Like all great characters, he inspired extreme reactions from people from all walks of life, in Australia and around the world.

Human Error

Inspired by actual events, 9Network's new drama series, Human Error, follows Detective Holly O'Rourke and her homicide team as a seemingly open-and-shut murder investigation threatens to destroy her career, her family, and her faith in justice. As she scrambles to redeem her personal and professional reputation, Holly and her team uncover a criminal conspiracy that will change their lives forever.

From the creative talents behind Underbelly, Bump, Offspring and Love My Way, Human Error is produced by John Edwards, Dan Edwards, Greg Haddrick and Samantha Winston, with The Age's legendary crime reporter and podcaster John Sylvester (Underbelly) as story consultant.

RPA

RPA is the program that ignited Australia's love of observational documentaries. For 17 years it gave viewers around the country an access-all-areas pass to the inner workings of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. And now it's back, narrated by Rodger Corser.

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Doctor Doctor star Rodger Corser is now narrating the new season of RPA. (Nine)

RPA follows patients who bravely and generously share their stories, as well as the outstanding surgeons and physicians who not only put broken bodies back together, but in many cases have to break the news to these patients that their prognosis isn't good.

These real-life moments are captured in all their unfiltered emotional rawness. Embracing the vast changes in medicine in the past decade, RPA will feature advancements and new technologies: from life-saving, minimally invasive brain, heart, and robotic surgery to the 24/7 statewide Clot Retrieval Procedure for stroke sufferers, along with all the immediacy of the hospital's Emergency Department.

RPA staff proudly claim, "We're the only hospital in Australia that does a bit of everything". Now they are doing even more.

Big Miracles

Big Miracles is a groundbreaking new series filled with pure hope, in the name of love, about the most emotional human experience of all: trying to have children. Starting a family is one of life's most important milestones. But what happens when pregnancy seems impossible?

In Big Miracles we track an emotionally powerful journey as 10 brave and determined individuals and couples try to fall pregnant when the odds are stacked against them. We also witness the miracle work of doctors, nurses and scientists trying to make their dreams come true. It's a remarkable story of hope, heartache, and triumph.

Australia's Most Identical

A brand new special event series, Australia's Most Identical is the ultimate search for the nation's most identical twins.

Hosted by Scott Cam and Dr Jana Pittman, both parents of twins, this social investigation series will find and ultimately determine the nation's most identical siblings.

Through a series of scientific and entertaining challenges, 100 sets of twins will be put under the microscope until one pair is crowned Australia's Most Identical. Australia's leading "Twin Experts" Professor Sarah Wilson and Professor Jeff Craig will supervise and assess the results, in consultation with Twin Research Australia, which is based at the University of Melbourne.

Delving into the unique and fascinating world of twins, Australia's Most Identical will offer the most compelling and entertaining exploration of what it means to share your identity with someone else.

Returning in 2023:

Married At First Sight

In 2023, Australia's biggest guilty pleasure returns for its most anticipated season yet. Celebrating a milestone anniversary, the 10th season of Married at First Sight will raise the stakes with a new cast of participants ready for a chance at love. As the experiment marks a decade, expect more breathtaking weddings, thought-provoking commitment ceremonies and dramatic dinner parties.

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The experts shocked after participants walk out of Commitment Ceremony on MAFS 2022. (Nine)

Certified clinical sexologist Alessandra Rampolla and relationship experts John Aiken and Mel Schilling will return to pair brave singles from across the country.

Testing the bonds of couples, our experts will once again explore the influence of science in developing genuine, long-lasting relationships. With a signature blend of unfiltered emotion, highly charged passion and genuine love, MAFS will captivate audiences as television's undisputable reality juggernaut ushers in a new era.

The Block

The Block is back in 2023 for an incredible 19th season.

Television's toughest building challenge will transform a brand-new Melbourne property with host Scott Cam welcoming a new batch of eager Blockheads to build five new family homes.

LEGO Masters

LEGO Masters exploded onto our screens in 2019 and has cemented itself as one of the most popular shows on TV.

In 2023, the feel-good phenomenon is back with an all star cast as the best of the very best return with a new wave of brilliant building and imagination for LEGO Masters: Grand Masters.

In this epic construction contest, the elite LEGO builders of the past four seasons will be competing for the ultimate title of Grand Masters.

Hamish Blake and Ryan 'Brickman' McNaught
Hamish Blake and Ryan 'Brickman' McNaught are the hosts of LEGO Masters. (Nine)

Host Hamish Blake and resident judge Ryan "Brickman" McNaught will be joined by the fan favourites and previous champions, all ingenious builders. Prepare to be dazzled by the most amazing challenges the show has ever seen, both in-studio and outside, when our teams duel it out for the chance to win $100,000 and to be crowned the very best LEGO building team in LEGO Masters history.

Travel Guides

Logie Award-winning Travel Guides will be returning in 2023 with the ultimate traveller's guide for your next escape. All our favourite travel critics are back as they take off for a seventh season filled with more amazing and adventurous destinations.

Each episode will see our fun jet setting Travel Guides share their unfiltered and brutally honest reviews of rip-roaring destinations as they experience the same week-long holiday from local cuisine, accommodation, activities and tourist sights. Opinions always differ, often leading to outrageous reviews as our Guides tell it how they see it and rate each holiday out of five stars.

Parental Guidance

When it comes to parenting, everyone has an opinion. Parental Guidance returns in 2023, putting 12 new parenting styles under the microscope to find out what works best.

When Parental Guidance first premiered, it broke new ground and got the nation confronting the biggest question: how should we be raising our future adults?

Now, in this fresh and thought-provoking series, TODAY host Ally Langdon and parenting expert Dr Justin Coulson are back, laying down even bigger and tougher parenting challenges. Designed to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of each parenting style, these challenges are all grounded in real-life scenarios. The results are authentic, joyful and shocking.

From Outback to Spiritual, Gentle to Unstructured, Road School to Influencer, every style will be unpacked, judged, and scrutinised under the guidance of Ally and Justin, to ultimately vote for Australia's best parenting style.

This new series has a special focus on raising kids in the digital age, from the rise of Influencer Parenting to the dark side of online gaming and the internet. The essentials of parenting are also explored in depth, from dealing with tantrums to sibling rivalry and driving kids to succeed. As the 12 sets of parents examine, compare and look at their parenting through fresh eyes, viewers have the chance to reflect, learn and even level up their own parenting.